Angle-measuring appliance.



A. KNIG. ANGLE MEASURING APPLIAGE.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 4, 1907.

PATENT orricn.

' Arnnn'r'xme, or JENA, GERMANY, AssIGNon To FIRM or CARL zeiss, or JENA, GERMANY. I

A'NeLn-MEAsu'nING,APPLIANCE.

To all lwhom it may cbncem: i

Be it known that I, ALBERT vzen of the German Empire, and residing at Carl-Zeiss strasse, Jena, in the'Grand Duchy vof Saxe-Weimar, Germany, have invented a. new and useful Angle-Measuring Appliance,

of which the following is` a specification.

The' invention relates to double image angle-measuring appliances in which the between the objective and the combination of prisms known as the Rochon prism is employed., This combination con,- sisting of two.or more prisms, of which lone at least is a double refracting crystal, for

example, calcite, is as is well known arranged, so that to one incident ray two.

emergin rays correspond, the directions of which differ by a certain angle, say fw, and of the two deiections'of which: from the direction of incidence'even the larger ldeflect1on'1s 1n general smaller than the anglelof` separation w and in no case much larger.

Double image anglemeasuring appliances are ordinarily employed to determine the distance of objects of which atleast one dimension perpendicular -to the direction lof vision is known to the observer.- In these appliances the distance between the double images of such an object can" be micrometrically made equal tothe said dimension and then the angle subtended bythe dimension read oli". Angle andv dimension together allowof the distance of. ther object be'- ing calculated. When a Rochon prism is made use of for producing the double images, the appliance consists of a telescope image eld of which the prism is slidably fitted, the distance between the double images being the larger the less the prism is distant from the objective.

The object of thewpresent invention is to make use of the properties of the Rochon prism for constructing a doublev image angle-measuringv appliance without the aid of a telescopic system. But it will be understood that such an appliance may serve as an adjunct to telescopes. In this case it is -ixed either before the objective or 'behind theocular. f v

The inventive idea has arisenfrom the following reiections. If in looking through a Rochon prism a certain point, say A', of one of the double images coincides with another certain point, say B', of the vother double image, the corresponding `object j l Specification 'of Letters Patent. u Y Application filed October 4, 190'?.v Serial No. 395,908.

' ,points .A' and- B, KNIG, a citiwhen viewed direct, lieV apart from each other by the angle of separationA w ofthe Rochon/prism. If the Rochon prism had an angle of separation arbitrarily alterable from zero-to a maximum value, with such a prism evidently the angle subtended Lby the well-known dimension of any object whatever u to the maximum angle of separation coul be measured according to the coincidence method just set forth, that is tosay, it would besuitable to serve by itself fdr' determining the distance of objects. ing appliance, made use of and in which Rochon prisms are in whichgsuch alterable an- 'gle of. separation is produced, forms the subject matter of the .present invention. To

explain this appliance it may in the rst place be'brought tomind, that two glassl wedges inserted one behind the other,when

i Patented Deo. 7, 1999'.

-A double image angle-measurrotated -about the incident vray through equal angles in npposite directions, are

planes of the second so that each ray is once again decomposed into4 two rays. To do away With'these disturbing secondary rays a circularly polarizing double refracting crystal plate, for example, a diskv of mica, is firmly connected with each Rochon prism on the side turned to the other prism. The two rays are circularly'l olarized after' emergence from the rst prlsm by its suitably 'orientated crystaly plate. After this -the two rays are always rectilinearly p'olarized by the other crystal plate orientated to the second Rochon prism', however may be the an lar position, of this plate relatively to the rst plate, so that the planes of polar-J ization coincide with the principal planesl of the second prism, further decomposition 'of the two rays through the second lprism thus being prevented.

90 do not always coincide with-the lprincipal p In the annexed drawing: Figure 1 is a I split up into two partial rays.

. One of these front View of an'appliance according to the l partial rays is supposed to retain the direcinvention, its'handhng in both hands as a self-contained instrument being indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is an axial section through the same appliance.l Fig. 3 is -a I diagram repeating the optical parts from Fig. 2 and showing the path of the rays.

Fig. 4 is a sectional plan View of the appliance of Fig. 2 on a smaller scale and in an inverted position, the appliance being slipped mount b" the index z' (Fi over the objective casing of a prism telescope shown in dotted lines.

' The two Rochon prisms a and b are rota table by means of their mounts a" and the former in the casing part c, the second in the casing part (l. The mounts are provided with bevel Wheels a1 and b1. A bevel wheel c, which can be vrotated by the milled head efygears into the bevel wheels a1 and 1, which are equal in size, and ,produces equally large, but opposite, rotation of the prisms. The prism a is equipped with a mica `or other double refracting plate f, the prism b with a similar one g. On the inner conical surface of the casing part d the scale of angles z and on the cover ring of the g. 1) is arranged.

For rotating the prisms 1n opposite directions, 'but with equal angular velocity, any f other mechanical coupling may be made use of. The measuringappliance proper may be executed in any other less simple form.

The Rbchon prisms a and b consist each of a calcite prism 1 (Fig. 3) and a glass prism' 2. A' ray incident normally on the -outer surface of the component l of the Rochon prism a, on passing through the interface between the components l and 2, is

The other partial ray tion of the incident ray on account of the for the component refractive index chosen 2. The Rochon prism b having -the same construction as a, this rst partial ray passes unbroken through the whole appliance. is ,deflected away from the edge of the component 1, but its passage from the component 2 to the mica plate f is unaccompanied by a noticeable deviation. On emerging from the plate f the second partial ray is further deflected and the angle between the two hanced, but this additional deflection is annulled when the ray enters the mica plate g. The Rochon prism b has a like iniiuence on the second partial ray as a, theray being further deflected on passing from the calcite component 1 to the glass component 2 and once more on emerging from the latter component. The final angle between the two partial rays is varied, as above explained, by compensatory rotations of the two optical members a f and g b of the appliance, the position of. the members as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 corresponding to the maximum angle.

Iclaim: f

partial rays thereby en- A double image angle-measuring applii ance, consisting of two Rochon prisms, two circular polarizing double refracting crystal plates', the plates being secured on the inner sides of the prisms, aund means for rotating the prisms through. equal angles, butin opposite directions.

ALBERT KONIG. Witnesses:

PAUL KRGER, FRrrz SANDER. 

